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Words Without Music

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by Philip Glass


  Himalayan region, 165, 167, 169, 170, 171, 175, 180, 341

  Hiskey, Iris, 236

  Hitler, Adolf, 285

  Hoffman, Willi, 305

  Holiday, Billie, 37

  Holland, 281, 309, 313, 315

  Holly, Buddy, 12

  Homer, 32, 155

  Honduras, 195

  Hopkins, Jeffrey, 182

  Horenstein, Jascha, 50

  Horst, Louis, 84

  Hours, The (film), 347–49

  Houston, Tex., 319, 323

  Houston Grand Opera, 281, 323

  Howell, Stokes, 277, 387

  Howl (Ginsberg), 386

  “How Now” (Glass), 219, 225

  Hungary, 115

  Hutchins, Robert, 19

  Hwang, David Henry, 325

  Hyde Park neighborhood (Chicago), 29, 36, 37, 43, 371

  Hydrogen Jukebox (Glass), 386–87

  “Hymn to the Sun, The” (Glass), 317, 318

  I Ching, 72

  Illusionist, The (film), 349

  “In Again Out Again” (Glass), 219, 225, 226

  India, 22, 54, 68, 69, 75, 106, 131, 146–47, 151, 153, 154, 155, 157, 158, 160, 161–64, 165–68, 166, 169–73, 174–81, 183–84, 185–87, 188–89, 193, 215, 221, 251, 310–11, 312, 315, 340–41, 358, 382, 385

  “Indian Opinion (1906)” (Glass), 312

  Inge, William, 116

  Institut Phonétique, 114, 182

  In the Penal Colony (Glass), 55

  In the Upper Room (album; Glass), 358

  Inverness, 263–64

  Iran, 152, 153, 157, 158–59

  Iraq, 157

  Ishioko, Eiko, 323, 343

  Israel, Bob, 315, 319

  Istanbul, 155, 156–57, 158

  Italy, 155, 249, 309, 358

  Ives, Charles, 46–47, 58

  Jacobs, Sydney, 21–22, 49

  Janácˇek, Leoš, 49

  Janz, Bob, 78, 79–80, 93

  Janz, Faye, 78

  Japan, 19, 326

  Jean (Glass’s aunt), 120

  Jennifer (Roland’s girlfriend), 73

  Jernigan, Candy, 352–66, 368–69, 389

  Jewel Heart center, 387

  Joe (Friends Seminary bursar), 281

  John (father’s employee), 4, 12, 394

  Johns, Jasper, 77, 80, 95, 229, 246–47, 251–52, 358

  Johns Hopkins University, 15, 20

  Johnson, Britton, 9–10, 340

  Johnson, Mimi, 290

  Johnson, Ray, 94, 99, 230

  Johnson, Samuel, 286, 288, 292

  Jolson, Al, 16, 17

  Jolson family, 16–17

  Jonas, Joan, 263

  Jones, A. M., 130

  Journey to the East (Hesse), 103

  Judd, Donald, 226, 227

  Juilliard School, xi, 27, 28, 37, 39, 40, 42, 48, 49, 56, 57–58, 61–62, 63, 64–66, 67, 81–82, 84–87, 88–94, 97, 99, 100, 102, 107, 108, 111, 115, 130, 138, 219, 225, 235, 236, 260, 261, 285, 312, 313

  Jules and Jim (film), 115

  Jung, Carl, 266

  Kabul, 160, 161

  Kafka, Franz, 392

  Kalimpong, 152, 169, 171, 172, 173, 174–80, 182, 183, 188–89, 358

  KA MOUNTain and GUARDenia Terrace (Wilson), 159

  Kandahar, 157–58, 160

  Kandy, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), 151, 163

  Kaplan, Abraham, 88

  Kaprow, Allan, 210

  Karlweiss, Ninon, 294, 300–301

  Kathakali Kalamandalam (academy), 186–87, 315

  Kathakali theater, 185–86, 187, 188, 358

  Katmandu, 168–69

  Katz, Steve, 263

  Kenton, Stan, 37

  Kepler, Johannes, 33, 285

  Kerala, 185, 358

  Kerouac, Jack, 101–2, 103

  Khyber Pass, 157, 159, 160–61

  Kidjo, Angélique, 342

  Kidman, Nicole, 347

  Kincaid, William, 9

  King, Martin Luther, Jr., 310, 311

  Kitchen, The, 213

  Klee, Paul, 78

  Kline, Franz, 79, 94

  Knee Plays (Glass), 289, 290, 295–96

  Knowles, Christopher, 287–88

  Kodály, Zoltán, 32

  Konitz, Lee, 36

  Korzybski, Alfred, 29, 103

  Kovaks, François, 115

  Koyaanisqatsi (film), 308–9, 326–29, 334, 343

  Kripl, Jack, 237

  Krishnamurti, 382–83

  Kundun (film), 193, 345–47

  Kunsthalle (Bern), 248

  Kyoko’s House (Mishima), 344

  La Barbara, Joan, 236

  Ladakh, 176, 177

  Lahore, 161, 162

  La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, 204, 208, 277

  Landry, Dickie, 236, 254, 294

  Larcher, David, 129, 150, 151, 152

  Laritz, Kathy, 387

  Latvia, 16

  Leaf, June, 77, 263

  Le Havre, 184

  Leiber, Jerry, 306

  Lennon, John, 239

  Leonelli, Dante, 118

  Lessing, Doris, 320–24, 343

  Lessing, Peter, 322

  Levine, Stanley, 109

  Lewis, Bob, 100

  Lewis, Nancy, 212

  LeWitt, Sol, 226, 228, 280

  Lhamo, Yungchen, 342

  Lhasa, 152, 174, 175, 176, 182

  Lichtenstein, Harvey, 283

  Life and Times of Joseph Stalin, The (Wilson), 185, 283–84

  “Light My Fire” (the Doors), 228

  Limón, José, 84

  “Line Up” (Tristano), 40–41

  Litman, Rebecca, 356

  Little Red Book (Mao), 309

  Living Theater, 111, 116, 118–19, 210, 290, 309

  Loesser, Frank, 308

  London, 55–56, 72, 75, 117, 133, 150, 151, 153, 170, 252, 259, 300, 312, 319, 321, 322, 324

  Lonely Crowd, The (Riesman, Denney, and Glazer), 25–26

  Los Angeles, Calif., x, 60, 101, 107, 327, 348, 358

  Lost Ones, The (Beckett), 125

  Louis, Morris, 78

  Louisiana, 37, 59, 236, 327

  Low Symphony (Glass), 314

  Luce, Hank, 388

  Ludlam, Charles, 98

  Lyrische Suite (Berg), 46

  MacClellan, Angus, 266

  MacDonald, David, 175

  MacDonald, Stanley, 266–67

  MacIsaac, Angus, 267

  MacIsaac, Ashley, 267, 342

  MacIsaac, Dan Huey, 262

  MacPherson, John Dan, 264–66

  Madame Butterfly (Puccini), 320

  Magic and Mystery in Tibet (David-Neel), 151

  “Magic Psalm” (Glass and Ginsberg), 387

  Mahabharata, The (Hindu text), 186, 291, 311

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 167

  Mahler, Gustav, 49–51, 92

  Maids, The (Genet), 104

  Maine, 13, 190, 261

  Maison de Musique, 148

  Making of the Representative for Planet 8, The (Lessing), 321, 322, 324

  Making of the Representative for Planet 8, The (opera; Glass), 322, 323, 324, 343

  Maleczech, Ruth, 111, 116, 123, 125, 202, 204, 207, 235

  Mali, 336, 359

  Malone Dies (Beckett), 104, 211

  Manaus, 331, 358

  Mandel Hall, 44

  Man for All Seasons, A (Bolt), 207

  Manhood of Humanity (Korzybski), 29

  Mann, Paul, 288

  Mantler, Mike, 252

  Man with the Golden Arm, The (Algren), 28

  Mao Zedong, 309

  Mapplethorpe, Robert, 77, 98, 199

  Marais, Jean, 377

  Marcela (Glass’s aunt), ix, 223

  Marden, Brice, 245

  Markovits, Josephine, 294

  Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five, The (Lessing), 321, 324

  Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five, The (opera; Glass), 324

  Marseille, 153, 155, 184

  M
arshall, Susan, 379

  Marx, Karl, 44

  Maryland, 12, 21, 59, 223

  Masculine Feminine (film), 115

  Mashhad, 158–59

  Mask of Orpheus, The (Birtwhistle), 369

  Mathison, Melissa, 345

  Matta-Clark, Gordon, 99

  Mattogrosso (Glass), 324

  Maud (childhood caretaker), 7, 395

  Max, Peter, 163–64

  Maysles brothers, 203

  McCarthy, Joseph, 44, 205

  McCray, Porter, 342

  McLean, Jackie, 35, 36, 41

  Mead, Margaret, 26

  Medina de la Rosa, Daniel, 196

  Meistersinger, Die (Wagner), 299

  Mekas, Jonas, 213, 218, 326

  Melville, Jean-Pierre, 378

  Memoirs of a Survivor (Lessing), 324

  Mendel, Gregor, 33

  Mendelssohn, Felix, 123

  Menuhin, Yehudi, 106, 130

  Mercier and Camier (Beckett), 125

  Merz, Mario, 249

  Metropolitan Opera House, 65, 121, 222, 297–300, 324

  Mexico, 187–88, 191, 194, 195, 341, 358

  Mexico City, 194, 195

  Milarepa, 193

  Milhaud, Darius, 27, 90

  Miller, Arthur, 116, 207, 210

  Minneapolis, Minn., 255, 283, 313, 338–39

  Mishima, Yukio, 343–44

  Mishima (film), 323, 343–44, 346

  Mishra, Ramamurti S., 106–7

  Modern Jazz Room, 36

  Mojácar, 118, 312

  Molina, Judith, 111, 119

  Molloy (Beckett), 104, 211

  Monet, Claude, 23

  Mongolia, 174

  Monk, Meredith, 206, 209, 227

  Monk, Thelonious, 35, 36, 37, 260

  Monsters of Grace (Glass), 301

  Montavon, Guy, 325

  Monte, Marisa, 342

  Monteverdi, Claudio, 127, 369

  Monument Valley, 327, 329

  Moondog (Louis Hardin), 41, 256–59

  Moore, Julianne, 348

  Moore, Peter, 261–62, 263

  Morel, Jean, 65, 91, 92, 93

  Morocco, 346

  Morris, Errol, 349

  Morris, Robert, 226

  Morton, Dean, 329

  Moses, 317

  Moses and Monotheism (Freud), 316

  Moskowitz, Robert, 263, 274

  Mother Courage and Her Children (Brecht), 104, 117

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 88, 127, 137, 144–45

  Mulligan, Gerry, 80

  Munich, 157

  Munkacsi, Kurt, 239, 359, 360

  Munkacsi, Nancy, 359

  Murphy, Arthur, 236

  Museum of Modern Art (New York), 80

  “Music for Ensemble and Two Actresses” (Glass), 202

  “Music in Contrary Motion” (Glass), 41, 239–41

  “Music in Fifths” (Glass), 41, 230, 239–41, 302

  “Music in Similar Motion” (Glass), 41, 220, 230, 239–41, 270, 271, 302

  Music in Twelve Parts (Glass), 41, 134, 241, 253, 256, 269–73, 280, 283, 288, 294

  Music with Changing Parts (album; Glass), 121, 241, 252, 253, 256, 263, 283

  “My Favorite Things” (Rodgers and Hammerstein), 35

  Nancarrow, Conlon, 49

  Naqoyqatsi (film), 328, 329

  Nawang Khechog, 342

  Nepal, 153, 168, 174, 177

  Netherlands Opera, 313, 315

  Neumann, Fred, 123, 125, 204, 207, 287

  Nevelson, Louise, 80

  “Newcastle March (1913)” (Glass), 312

  New Delhi, 153, 162, 163, 165, 167, 168, 169, 178, 186, 189, 340

  New Jersey, 101, 182

  Newton, Isaac, 19, 33

  New York State, 181, 182, 307

  Nicole, Jonathan, 112

  Ninth Symphony (Mahler), 92

  Nog (Wurlitzer), 261

  Noland, Kenneth, 78

  Nonas, Richard, 243

  Nono, Luigi, 58, 88

  Norman (Glass’s cousin), 120, 121–22

  North Star (film), 77, 305–6

  North Sydney (Nova Scotia), 266

  Notes on a Scandal (film), 349

  Nova Scotia, 55, 208, 262–68

  Oakland, Calif., 202, 203

  O’Day, Anita, 37

  Odetta, 44

  Odyssey, The (Homer), 32

  Oedipus and Akhnaten (Velikovsky), 316

  Offenbach, Jacques, 369

  Ohio, 21, 101

  Oh les Beaux Jours (Happy Days) (Beckett), 116

  Ohrenstein, Dora, 236

  O’Keeffe, Georgia, 78

  Oldenburg, Claes, 72–73, 210

  Olivier, Lawrence, 117

  “On Cremation of Chögyam Trungpa, Vidyadhara” (Glass and Ginsberg), 387

  “1 + 1” (Glass), 238

  Ono, Yoko, 73

  On the Road (Kerouac), 101–2, 103

  Opera House (Chicago), 32

  Opus 21 (Webern), 46

  Orange, Conn., 63, 64

  Orenstein, Harold, 308

  Orfeo, L’ (Monteverdi), 127

  Origin of Species, The (Darwin), 33

  Orlovsky, Peter, 388, 390

  Orphée (film), 37, 368, 369–70, 371–72, 373–74, 381

  Orphée (opera; Glass), 368–69, 373–74, 377, 378

  Orwell, George, 170

  Othello (Shakespeare), 117

  Our Lady of Flowers (Genet), 104

  Ovid, 368

  Page, Tim, 256

  Pakistan, 152, 155, 160, 161, 162, 176

  Pallis, Marco, 151

  Papp, Joseph, 204–6

  Paris, x, 11, 37, 42, 52–55, 56, 67, 68, 69, 71, 73, 74, 75, 78, 91, 94, 102, 104, 107, 108, 110–11, 112–16, 117, 119, 123–24, 125, 129, 130, 137, 142, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 153–54, 155, 163, 176, 183, 184, 202, 204, 206, 207, 214, 217, 219, 229, 235, 245, 256, 259, 261, 271, 290, 294, 298, 300, 305, 359, 375, 385

  Parker, Charlie, 29, 34–35, 41, 80, 260

  Park School (Baltimore), 8

  Partch, Harry, 49

  “Partita for Solo Violin” (Glass), 315

  Passion of Ramakrishna, The (album; Glass), 192–93

  Patanjali, 107, 191

  Patna, 168

  Paula Cooper Gallery, 208, 213

  Paxton, Steve, 212

  Peabody Conservatory, 9–10, 36, 45, 48, 89, 224, 340, 394

  Peaks and Lamas (Pallis), 151

  Peck, Richard, 236

  Pennsylvania, 21, 101

  Penthouse of the Gods (Bernard), 151

  Perfect American, The (Glass), 55

  Persepolis, 159

  Persichetti, Vincent, 84–85, 92–93

  Peru, 334–35

  Peshawar, 161, 162

  Pesle, Benedict, 290

  Petrushka (ballet), 49, 136

  Phillips, Duncan, 78

  Phillips Collection, 78–79

  Photographer, The (album; Glass), 358

  “Piano Piece for David Tudor #1” (aka “Feeding the Piano”) (Young), 74

  Piano Sonata, op. 1 (Berg), 42

  Picasso, Pablo, 78

  “Piece in the Shape of a Square” (Glass), 225–26

  Pierrot le Fou (film), 115

  Piraeus, 155, 156

  Pittsburgh, Pa., 107, 108–9, 110, 312

  Pivar, Malcolm, 21

  Pixley-Rothschild, Dorothy, 90, 218–20, 221, 225, 226, 227

  Play (Comédie) (Beckett), 124, 125–27, 201–2, 207–8, 209–10

  Poe, Edgar Allan, 345

  Poland, 14, 111

  Pollock, Jackson, 79–80

  Pop, Iggy, 342

  Porgy and Bess (Gershwin), 320

  Poulenc, Francis, 49

  Pountney, David, 319, 324

  Powaqqatsi (film), 327, 329, 330–35, 338, 359

  Powell, Bud, 34, 35, 36, 41, 80, 260

  Powell, Michael, 345, 346

  Pranath (Indian musician), 74

  Preludes and Fugues, Book 1 (Bach), 137
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  Presley, Elvis, 38, 307

  Prince Edward Hotel (Darjeeling), 172

  “Protest (1908)” (Glass), 312

  Proust, Marcel, 92, 93

  Public Theater, 204, 205, 206, 252, 267, 287

  Puccini, Giacomo, 373

  Punjab region, 162

  Purnhagen, Greg, 377

  Queens College, 218, 221, 299, 300

  Quito, 358

  Radigue, Eliane, 270

  Raging Bull (film), 346

  Rainer, Yvonne, 212–13

  Rakha, Alla, 22, 132–33, 191, 214, 215, 216, 218, 229, 271, 289, 339

  Ramakrishna (Bengali saint), 151, 192–93

  Ramayana (Valmiki), 185, 186

  Rampal, Jean-Pierre, 130

  Raskin, Marcus, 42–43, 46, 57, 82

  Rauschenberg, Robert, 77, 80, 95, 210, 211, 228–29, 247, 355, 358

  Raymond, Bill, 204

  Ready, Carlisle, 112

  Real de Catorce, 196

  Rebecca (Glass’s friend), 363

  Reck, David, 185

  Red Horse Animation, The (Breuer), 208, 263

  Red Shoes, The (film), 345

  Reed, Lou, 342

  Reggio, Godfrey, 308, 326–28, 329–30, 331, 332–35, 341, 343, 349, 376

  Reich, Steve, 220, 225, 226, 227, 236, 249, 250, 258

  Reiner, Fritz, 23, 32, 49

  Renaud, Madeleine, 116

  Requiem (Verdi), 88

  Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui, The (Brecht), 117

  Rheingold, Sandy, 231–32, 233, 242, 248

  Ricke, Rolf, 145–46, 248

  Riesman, David, 25, 26–27

  Riesman, Michael, 26, 236, 287, 359, 376

  Rigoletto (Verdi), 187

  Riley, Terry, 226, 227

  Rimpoche, Gelek, 180, 182, 183, 303, 387, 390

  Rimpoche, Kalu, 171

  Rimpoche, Ken, 182

  Rimpoche, Khyongla Rato, 182

  Rimpoche, Tomo Geshe, 171, 177–80, 181, 182–83, 188, 196, 366–67, 393

  Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai, 49

  Rio de Janeiro, 330, 332, 368

  Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagony (Brecht), 104

  Rishikesh, 165, 166–67, 168

  Rite of Spring, The (ballet), 49, 136

  Robbins, Jerome, 284, 293, 298

  Rockwell, John, 321

  Roland (acquaintance), 73

  Rollins, Sonny, 35

  Rome, 212–13, 259

  Rome (Glass), 301

  Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 210

  Rooks, Conrad, 129, 130, 133, 151, 163

  Rose, Barbara, 77, 305–6

  Rossi, Mick, 236–37

  Rothenberg, Susan, 243

  Rothko, Mark, 78–79

  Rothschild, Joel, 219

  Rotterdam, 259, 294, 305, 314, 319

  Rouson, John, 72–73, 74–75, 76, 93, 94, 95, 99, 110, 112

  Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), 117

  Rudin, Scott, 347, 348–49

  Runaway Horses (Mishima), 344

  Russell, Arthur, 98

  Russia, 16, 49, 160

  Sagan, Carl, 49

  Sag Harbor, N.Y., 94

  “Sailing to Byzantium” (Yeats), 156

  St. Louis, Mo., 101, 107, 255

  Samdup, Lama Kazi Dawa, 150, 174

  Samten Chöling Monastery (Ghoom Monastery), 171

 

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